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. 2020 Sep 17;10:15296. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-72338-3

Table 2.

Summary of logEC50 ± SE in pulmonary arteries in response to U46619 and mesenteric arteries to ACh in control situation; 20 min incubation  with L-NAME; 20 min  incubation with LNAME and indomethacin; 20 min incubation with with cocktail: L-NAME, indomethacin, TRAM-34 and apamin; Emax, maximum contractile response; Rmax, maximum relaxation response.

Incubation with ApoE KO-western diet ApoE KO- standard diet Sprague Dawley
n = 8 n = 7 n = 8
−logEC50 ± SEM Emax ± SEM −logEC50 ± SEM Emax ± SEM −logEC50 ± SEM Emax ± SEM
Pulmonary artery
Control situation 7.06 ± 0.15 83.34 ± 9.01 6.92 ± 0.11 97.64 ± 7.73 6.78 ± 0.15 95.90 ± 10.22
L-NAME 7.08 ± 0.12 141.3 ± 10.61 7.2 ± 0.13 145.2 ± 10.91 7.07 ± 0.13 141.0 ± 11.54
L-NAME + indomethacin 7.36 ± 0.10 145.7 ± 8.29 7.05 ± 0.12 126.0 ± 9.74 6.77 ± 0.21 121.3 ± 15.90
Cocktail 7.33 ± 0.08 141.3 ± 7.33 7.16 ± 0.19 121.8 ± 8.18 6.83 ± 0.18 110.8 ± 12.50
−logEC50 ± SEM Rmax ± SEM −logEC50 ± SEM Rmax ± SEM −logEC50 ± SEM Rmax ± SEM
Mesenteric artery
Control situation 6.89 ± 0.15 59.61 ± 4.70 6.96 ± 0.12 61.81 ± 3.51 7.16 ± 0.11 59.28 ± 3.47
L-NAME 6.54 ± 0.57 20.42 ± 2.92 7.12 ± 0.26 18.90 ± 1.94 6.08 ± 0.62 48.40 ± 12.84
L-NAME + indomethacin 6.95 ± 0.83 27.78 ± 4.48 7.75 ± 0.28 27.37 ± 2.80 7.29 ± 0.22 32.70 ± 3.00
Cocktail 8.045 ± 0.22 18.21 ± 1.51 7.58 ± 0.10 18.87 ± 0.82 7.39 ± 0.13 15.99 ± 0.90